Steam News announces the
new Scout update for Team Fortress 2 is now available, and in celebration they
are selling Team Fortress 2 on
Steam for half-price through Friday. The update to the teamplay shooter has
been detailed for the past week, but here's the rundown:

Updates to Team
Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when
your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

New features
• Added The Force-A-Nature, The Sandman, and Bonk!
• Added 35 new Scout achievements
• Added crit boosted on/off sound effects
• Added new sounds for upgraded teleporters
• Added new sound for a fully charged medic dying
• Add bonus points section to scores
• Scouts earn a bonus point for killing Medics who are actively healing a
target
• Added several new speech concepts, mostly hooked up to new Scout lines
• Added new "Remember last weapon between lives" option to the Multiplayer
Advanced dialog
• Spies can now control which weapon the enemy team sees them holding. Hitting
the "last disguise" key while disguised updates the disguise to show the Spy's
currently held weapon
• Added several new Arena mode announcer speech events.
• Added "First Blood" to Arena mode
• Removed 2x item respawn times in arena
• Changed backstab handling to fix facestabs
• Spies disguised as enemy team can now see player IDs for enemies

New maps
• Added community maps: cp_egypt, arena_watchtower, and cp_junction
• Updated cp_fastlane with Arttu's new version